Fortnightly Newsletter Australian International Islamic College

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah Lord of all the worlds, the Most Kind, the Most

Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. You alone we worship and to You alone do we appeal for help. Show us the straight

path, the path of those whom you have favoured. Not (the path) of those who incur wrath nor of those who go astray. (Ameen)

Upcoming events May 9, Friday Gold Coast Sun –AFL program 9:00am – 10:00am Upper Primary 10:00am – 11:00am Lower Primary 3:30pm - AFL Auskick program All year level, $65.00 per child May 13, Tuesday NAPLAN test May 14, Wednesday NAPLAN test May 15, Thursday NAPLAN test REMINDERS FROM ADMIN gc.admin@aiic.qld.edu.au

School fees and charge Term 2 fees is due ! Please keep fees up to date. As always, if you have any questions, please drop by the School Office. Family Fun Night Our main campus in Durack is holding a fundraiser and request parents support. It will be a fun filled evening for the whole family with sumptuous food, and entertainment . WHEN: Saturday, 24th May 2014 TIME : 4:00pm onwards WHERE: AIIC Main campus 724 Blunder Road, Durack Tickets are available now. Thank you in advance for your support.

May

2014

Issue No. 6

ANNUAL QURAN COMPETITION

Alhamdulillah our Annual Quran Competition

was held on Thursday, 1 May. We are very

grateful to both Imam Khalid and Imam Imran

Hussein for giving their time to the college to

judge the competition. We are also very thankful

to the advice given to our students for future

improvements.

I commend our students for their efforts on the

day and encourage new students to participate

next year InshaAllah. Our winners will be

participating in the ICQ Quran Competition soon

after Ramadan, InshaAllah.

NAPLAN TESTING PROGRAM

On Tuesday, May 13 two tests will be

administered. These include: Language

Conventions (testing spelling, grammar and

punctuation) and Writing. Reading skills will be

tested on Tuesday, 13 May, Wednesday, May 14

Reading with Numeracy tested on Thursday, May

15, There will be a ‘make up’ day on Friday 16

May for and student who were unable to do their

tests on the designated day.

These literacy and numeracy tests form a key part

of the National Assessment Program endorsed by

all Australian Ministers for Education. The aim of

the national literacy and numeracy tests is to

provide a measure of how Australian schools and

students are performing in the areas of reading,

writing, spelling and numeracy. These tests are

only one measure and need to be considered along

with school based assessments which are designed

to identify students’ strengths and areas for

growth. Parents and careers may wish to talk with

their children about the test and encourage them

to their best.

Kindly ensure that your child is present at school

on these days. However, students absent on the

above days may sit for the test on Friday 16 May

2014.

May Newsletter 2014

May Newsletter 2014

YEARS 1 / 2

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Asalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa

Barakatuhu.

As-salamu alaykum (سالم كم ال ي ل (ع

My name is Sina Rogers. I am the new classroom teacher for Year 1 and 2 in the college. I recently moved here from New Zealand and currently residing here in the Gold Coast. In the past six years, I’ve had the opportunity to teach children overseas from all different cultures and backgrounds. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to teach both Junior and Middle Primary school age groups and especially being able to be part of a very diverse community.

Teaching has been a long time passion for me and I am very grateful for such blessing to be part of the academic success of every child here in the Australian International Islamic College. As a trained teacher, I believe in teaching and supporting the children in our society to become long life learners and achieve their full potential. It is my belief that the education of children is a continuing life long process.

As an educator in the College, I endeavour to teach from the basis of who I am, where I come from and where I would like to be. I envision this opportunity to teach Year 1 and Year 2 as a bilingual and multilingual environment. A classroom environment that is colourful and vibrant that encourages and promotes learning through pride. I aim to offer a secure and full of learning potential environment to all children belonging in this college.

It is my privilege to be part of your child’s learning and I am looking forward to work alongside with you parents and my colleagues to achieve the academic success of the children in the Australian International Islamic College.

.

Sina Rogers (Year 1& 2)

YEARS 4~6

Assalamua alaikum Wr Wb.

It is with proud that, Alhamdulillah, I can report that so

far we have begun Term 2 with a great enthusiasm. The

quality of delivery of learning has met my expectations

for the students. Evidence is obvious to all that the

students are well disciplined with a focus on achieving

higher outcomes.

Since the beginning of Term 2 2014, we aimed to achieve

a quality learning for our children. Students indeed have

made enormous effort towards increased quality

learning and effective communication with each other

until now, beginning Term 2! Their commitment will

undoubtedly further enhance their learning. So, I’d like

to thank both the students and parents for their

response to a determined focus on discipline and

academic achievement so far. Here is just a reminder

about the Daily and weekly quizzes. These assessments

are valid indications of students’ progress and

understanding of academic concepts. So, it would be

great if those quizzes as well as the home works can be

signed off by parents. This will definitely assist us to be

aware of the children’s strengths or those areas which

need to be improved.

Naplan testing will be on next week! The consistent

message to children, families and staff needs to be that

it is really important to keep perspective - that the

NAPLAN is just a ‘snapshot‘ of a child‘s overall

achievement. The results are certainly interesting at a

whole school level, however at an individual level they

need to be viewed in relation to all the other

assessments, work samples and opportunities children

have to demonstrate their learning throughout the year.

Many thanks to all those wonderful parents who

encouraged their children to do their best and attend to

the classes after school, but avoided placing high stress

on young shoulders!

As a class we believe that we are all capable of

achieving our very best and that as a class we

need to work as a team to achieve our dream!!!

Congratulations to all the students who are

working very hard and to all award recipients.

Keep up the good and inspiring work in class and

at home. Again, I would like to thank all parents

for their help and support.

Student of the month – Muhammad Syed

Ali Mirhashemi Years 4~6 Teacher

FROM YEARS 9 / 10 CLASSROOM

Assalamualaikum parents / carers,

Dear Parents Welcome to the senior school Page.

We have started our new project based Curriculum new term.

Our first unit is War and Peace. For this unit we are studying the life of the ANZAC’s in the trenches, during the First World War. As our assessment activity we will producing a documentary based on the lives of the ANZAC’s. We look forward to sharing our students’ results with you all on our open night.

Camp is approaching fast and there will be a number of important newsletters coming home, so can you please check with children, and ensure these are returned to school as soon as possible. The newsletter we are needing returned at the moment is the camp permission slips, please sign these and have them returned to school on Monday please, as we are booking and paying deposits this week.

Mrs Diana Neville

Student of the month

– Ibrahim Mohamed

CAMPUS COORDINATOR

Assalamualaikum Wr Wb

Dear parents and families.

It is an honour to bring you our newsletter again

this week, and what a week it has been.

We have the term up and running very well. The tuck shop is producing some tasty food and at amazing prices.

We have two new teachers, and Year 1 teacher with lots of experience, and an experience ESL teacher for the primary school. Welcome Sina and Robyn.

There are a number of changes in the secondary school as well. All of our high school students have been put together to improve their learning outcomes.

We have also introduced a new ground breaking curriculum (the first in Australian secondary schools). This curriculum is called project based curriculum. The most redeeming feature of this new curriculum is that students get to work on real life projects, building a variety of cross curricula skills, problem solving techniques and most importantly improved literacy and numeracy outcomes.

If you have any questions with regard to the new curriculum please feel free to make an appointment to see me, as I am more than happy to discuss this you.

I wish you all a good week and may Allah be with

you.

Mrs Diana Neville

ISLAMIC AND ARABIC STUDIES

Assalamu Ailakum Dear Parents,

May Allah (SWT) allow this letter to reach you and your family in good health and high spirit of Imam and Taqwa.

Allow me to take this opportunity to tell you about some of the activities in the Islamic Studies class in Term 2.

In this term, all our students are learning about

the use of water according to Fiqh. This is

because Rasulullah (SAW) in one of his great

Hadeeth that Tahur (cleanliness) is the key for

Salah.

In Grades 1-3, our students are learning about

the five Pillars of Islam and the Five Pillars of

Iman in detail.

In Grades 4, 5 & 6, the students will learn about

the Story of Yusuf (ASW) and his brothers from

his childhood, to his life in Egypt and his

reunion with his family.

In secondary years, the students will learn

about the Halal and Haram foods and about the

foods of the People of the Books. They will also

be introduces to the life of Luqman (ASW),

Thul Al-Qarnayn, the life of Ibrahim (SAW) and

the Companions of the cave.

May Allah (SWT) accept us all Fi Alsaliheen.

Wassalamu Ailakum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.

Imam Yousef Hussein (Islamic Studies and Arabic Teacher)

From the P & C

Assalumu Alaykum Wa Rahmatul Allahi Wa Barakatuhu

Dear Parents,

Welcome to the 2014 Parents and Community newsletter page.

On this page we will be keeping you up to date with our up and coming events, progress reports on the funding of school events such as the senior school camp, the purchase of more technology in the primary school, the purchase of books and toys and sports equipment for all of our students.

The role of the Parents and Community committee is hugely valuable within the school because it helps with the communication between parents, the community and the management of the school. It is made up of volunteers which help around the school, and in the community, they provide services to our students and to the teaching staff, with activities such as preparing the halal school lunches, making decisions on school funding events, they organise and make decisions about what funding is spent on and social events for parents to enjoy and socialise together.

As the committee is a volunteer organisation we are would very much appreciate the involvement of our parents and community. There are a number of roles and responsibilities which need managing, as well as in school activities parent and community help and support are required for. If you would like to help either in an official role or as a volunteer for events please ring Fatima at the school office or Diana and leave your name and phone number and one of the committee

members will be in touch with you.

Thank You for your support The Parents and Community Committee.

ESL & LEARNING SUPPORT

Assalamu alaikum , my name is Robyn Graham and I am teaching in the ESL / Learning Support Room. I have over 10 years experience teaching at all levels of primary school in New Zealand. I have spent many years teaching the skills of oral language, reading, writing and numeracy to children of all ages. In the past few years I have also been working with children with special needs. This has included providing them with specialised help and work they can do in the classroom.

I am enjoying helping the children at AIIC develop their language skills and it is great to see them so excited and enthusiastic about their learning. It is great to be greeted with their smiling faces each morning. I believe learning continues throughout your life and it is important that children see the adults around them continue to learn. Once they have the skills of reading and writing, they can continue to learn and strive to do their best. We are all teachers and learners in the ESL / Learning Support Room. The children are teaching me about their cultures and we are all learning more about Australia!

Kind Regards

أطيب التحيات

Robyn Graham

ESL Teacher

TUCKSHOP MENU

MONDAY

Fresh Baked Muffins, Piece of fruit,

Kafta wrap with lettuce and tomato, and popper Juice

TUESDAY

Custard Tart, Piece of fruit

Hot Dog Roll or Meat pie and Popper Juice

WEDNESDAY

2 x Cheese and Spinach Roll, Piece of fruit

Sausage roll and Popper Juice

THURSDAY

2 x Cookies, Piece of fruit

Chicken Burger with tomato and lettuce, and Popper

juice

FRIDAY

Sausage Sizzle, Drink and morning tea

Parents are welcome to join us on that day.

Menu is $5 daily which includes Morning Tea

and Lunch.

All proceeds from the tuck Shop are spent on

resources for the school.

Extras will be available to be purchased

separately on a daily basis. Prices start from

$1.

Prices are subject to change